Workplace Policies
SAfAIDS has a comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace programme that offers technical support to government departments and institutions, private sector and NGOs in the southern Africa region to internally mainstream HIV and AIDS at workplace level through development and implementation of workplace policies and programmes.
Apart from assisting individual organisations in developing workplace policies and implementation modalities that addresses HIV and AIDS issues, SAfAIDS has produced materials to support its workplace capacity development programmes.
To date SAfAIDS has assisted several development agencies, donors and multilateral institutions in mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in their development work.
SAfAIDS also offers an information and communication platform for people to share and exchange information, knowledge and experience around the topic HIV & AIDS in the workplace:
Linking people and organisations together
Besides that the workplace desk has employed an exciting implementation model that most organisations have found most useful. This model includes five critical programme cycle steps which are:
- Partner identification and needs assessment
- Capacity development and mentoring
- Material production and utilisation
- Experience sharing done through networking and regional symposium
- Programme exit depending on the level of organisational maturity in programming
- Monitoring, Evaluation and reporting is crosscutting and is done at each of the five levels.
Is HIV and AIDS your business? Get in touch, we can help your organisation to internally mainstream HIV and AIDS in your work or business!!!
For more information or enquiries, email: ngoni@safaids.net
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Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands Family Fun Day
The Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands (EKN) held a fun day for its workers and their families at Cresta Lodge on 5 January 2012. SAfAIDS provided logistical support to the event combined for both the adults and children. The master of ceremony was the famous Hazvinei Sakarombe (DJ Chillie) who led the event right through to end of day. Mrs Barbara Joziasse the Dutch Ambassador to Zimbabwe graced the occasion as guest of honour.
Doing it by yesterday: Accelerated workplace policy development
Praxis Note. 60: Doing it by yesterday: Accelerated workplace policy development: Experiences from SAfAIDS Zimbabwe, February 2011
SAfAIDS Workplace Policy & Programme Development and Implementation
SAfAIDS Workplace Policy & Programme Development and Implementation poster
SAfAIDS Steps in developing HIV and AIDS Workplace Policy
The main thrust of a workplace policy that addresses HIV and AIDS is :
1. To encourage prevention of HIV among the workforce and their families.
2. To promote and preserve human rights of people living with HIV or AIDS.
The rights include the rights to accurate information, employment benefits, freedom of association, equality and human dignity. The workplace policy can be used as a tool for addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV or AIDS. The policy could include a section on how stigma can be reduced and guidelines on disciplinary easures for co-workers who discriminate against people living with HIV.
A Report of SAfAIDS 2nd Regional Workplace Symposium - June 2007
A Report of SAfAIDS 2nd Regional Symposium on "Working for Health: Innovative Models in HIV and AIDS programming in the World of Work." 27-29 June 2007, Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
In order to address the challenges highlighted above SAfAIDS successfully organised and conducted a regional symposium from 27-29 June 2007 at Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia. This was the second SAfAIDS regional workplace symposium after the 2004 Windhoek Symposium. The theme of the symposium was "Working for Health: Innovative Models in HIV and AIDS programming in the world of work.
Zimbabwe: ZAPSO Launches 3 DVDs
HARARE, 31 July 2008 (Herald) - The Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention and Support Organisation last week launched three 15-minute DVDs on HIV and AIDS to be used as training material at workplaces. The three DVDs are on management sensitisation, workplace policy development and treatment literacy.
